News 2008 July 4

Throughput of Petersburg Oil Terminal up 3.6% to 5.7 mln in H1 08

Vyborg Shipyard to provide first drilling rig for Shtokman field in October 2010

Ferry sinks in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, 38 dead

Gazprom Neft inks deal with Japanese company

STX Group falls on funding concerns

Doosan may sell off assets to buy Daewoo shipbuilding

29 US West Coast ports are threatened by work stoppages

Container throughput in the Rhine ports 2007

Port of New Orleans throughput down one percent in the first four months

Daewoo Ship wins $2.34 bln Maersk ship order

EU extends aid rules for shipyards until 2011

Cosco Pacific in $250m sale and leaseback deal

Tsuji Heavy to build second shipyard in China

Kazakhstan against joint fleet of Caspian nations - ambassador to Azerbaijan

Throughput of Mobi Dick container terminal up 14.4% to 107,000 TEU in H1 08

Volga Shipping ups inland cargo transportation by 2% to 2 mln t in H1 08

Vyborg Shipyard to lay down the first semi-submersible floating drilling rig for Gazprom

Shanghai International Port Group to issue 4 bln yuan worth of 365-day bonds

China Merchants Shipping sees H1 net profit up over 80 pct year-on-year

Sale of Navigation Maritime Bulgare approved by Privatization Agency

Stolt-Nielsen S.A. reports unaudited second-quarter and first-half 2008 results

China's trade value up 26pc, surpasses US$1 trillion in five months

Xiamen port ups international transshipments by 237pc in first five months

Kerch Strait cleared of oil spill - Ukraine emergencies ministry

Wartsila acquires design group Vik-Sandvik

Fredriksen buys more shares in TUI

Oil price up to $146.08 in London and to $145.29 in New York